The only time I ever listen to the radio is when I'm driving. My usual choice of stations is Magic FM, Planet Rock and occasionally Classic FM. Every now and then I am forced to switch the radio off because they're playing a track/song I just can't listen to. Off the top of my head these include "Horse with no Name" by America (stupid lyrics), "Leave Right Now" by Will Young (good song, don't really mind Will Young, but he doesn't sing it very well), "When You Say Nothing at All" by Ronan Keating (so inferior to the Alison Krauss version, and it's obviously meant to be sung by a woman). "Cherish" by Kool and the Gang (more terrible lyrics). There are others, I just don't recall them right now.

In Ireland there's no ad free radio stations. That puts me off listening to the radio altogether more than any song. Plus news on the hour. Why are predominantly music based stations required to do the news? As for the actual music I'd say pretty much any sort of chart music from about 1998 onwards would have me reaching for the dial (right now I can only think of a handful of exceptions). I also want to recognise the annual abomination that is Christmas FM, a special wall to wall station of Christmas tunes that pollutes Irish airwaves for a quarter of the year. The fact people will voluntarily listen to that shite makes me pray for a global nuclear apocalypse.

I never listen to the radio by choice - only ever because someone's got it playing in the car or in a shop. But if I could switch off a radio every time it played Don't Stop Believing or Happy, I totally would.

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I also want to recognise the annual abomination that is Christmas FM, a special wall to wall station of Christmas tunes that pollutes Irish airwaves for a quarter of the year.

I forgot about Christmas songs. I doubt that there are enough good Christmas songs to make an hour long programme, let alone a dedicated station. You just end up with endless repeats of Shakin Stevens and "A Spaceman Came Travelling".

I generally only listen tot he radio when in the car. I'm normally quite tolerant of some of the shit that comes out, but recently I switched of a "Little Mix" song that I'd heard quite a few times. I've no idea what it's called but it sounds like they're singing about focaccia. It's basically just noise though. I might also have switched off Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran.

Probably needs its own thread, but on a similar theme : Noises you can't stand.
1) The headphone alarm at work (John Lewis )

This sounds very specific to you. But this reminds me - when you're watching a film (or anything) on a plane and they stop it to make some announcement, and the cunts also do the announcement really loudly through your headphones as if they're trying to deafen you. It's not really a single noise as such, but there you go. But anyway, if they're stopping the film including its sound, they don't need to make the announcement through your headphones. Fucking idiots.